Hello MediaWiki community,
I tried to update from MediaWiki 1.10.2 to 1.11.0. When executing the
maintenance/update.php script I got following error:
Deleting old default messages (this may take a long time!)...
Fatal error: Call to a member function addGroup() on a non-object
in /home/pierre/public_html/wiki.archlinux.de/maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php
on line 19
This happens because "$wgUser" is null and
therefor "$wgUser->addGroup( 'bot' );" fails. This might happen
because I use
an AuthPlugin which is not allowed to create new users. (Anyway: I think its
a bug in MediaWiki ;-))
My question is: Is this bot user needed anyway? I patched the script according
to the attachment and everything seems to be fine.
Thanks,
Pierre
PS: I never had such a problem when updating to a newer version.